Submit a Film Review
Send Brud your Movie Review
Brud would love to publish your review or critique of any film, including mainstream Hollywood, independent, or foreign language.
What is welcome?
Your desire to not be paid. We cannot pay you. We can use your review free. You can take it from us at any time. It is always YOURS. We pay you with publicity and a byline, including a web address, email, or real name, if you so desire. Your call.
- Any type of commentary or approach - Brud loves unusual, hates establishment.
- Describe, analyse, or evaluate, the film or its impact on the industry, society, even civilization.
- Your review/critique/thesis stands apart from mere PR, and might delightfully take mainstream critics to task.
- Most favored efforts will intersect with SheepOverboard’s broad philosophical theme.
- At the very minimum, a straight-forward review comprising synopsis, background information, plus some analysis. Please, more than simply a plot summary.
- Short or long, typically 300 to 3000 words. More if educational, treatise, or thesis.
- Non-English language reviews are strongly preferred written in your native language, not translated to your second language. An additional English version would also be greatly appreciated, and - if English is your second language and the review lacks readability, our venerable SheepOverboard editor only too happy to polish your effort, if either of us deem it desirable.
What is NOT welcome
- Porn and adult? Hmmm.. (Marg Simpson noise) Generally, adult and porn are out, unless your review skilfully or parodically mounts the rubbish on a pedestal of social or cultural value.
- In other words, reviews of dubious films cannot be accepted if a pedestrian treatment of lascivious indulgent sexual material. However, possibly your review might be warmly greeted if an artistic appraisal - or better - a philosophical reflection/dissection.
- Must NOT contain prohibited (naughty) words, even if they occur in the film. Sorry, see our ‘Prudishness’ policy below.
- Published elsewhere? Hmmm, if more than one other instance appears on the Internet we probably will not publish. And certainly NOT if it’s already in a free content directory.
Checklist:
Reviews accepted in any text format, except:
Macintosh folk must translate their handiwork into rest-of-world-compatible code. Do not save using the “I’m an Apple, I’ll take care of it, you don’t need to know” button. If in doubt, use the next tip. Note to everyone: Paste the text into your email, if in doubt.
Label your email with subject line: “Reader’s film review for Brud” or very similar. We get lots of spam to sort. Follow up if you do not receive an acknowledgement within 5 days.
Send your work to Brud at sheepoverboard dot com [naturally, that's an anti-spambot code and you must translate into the email address format "name@domainname.com" where name actually is 'brud' (remove quotes) and domainname.com = well, you know, 'sheepoverboard.com' (lose the quotes, again]
Include the following at your discretion and state clearly which of them you want published in your byline:
- your real name (withheld if requested) your email address (valid address - not published unless requested) a nom-de-plume (optional) A free URL (Universal Resource Locater - that’s a web address, dummy) is allowed. You can, in other words, link back to your own web site.
So get writing .. or as Brud says, scribblin’
Prudishness Policy
SheepOverboard is anything but prudish, but we are anything but going to cut our nose off to spite our face.
It’s not all laissez faire and anything goes out there, you know. Many of our readers dwell behind state or religious censorial barriers, ranging from overly-nurturing to puritanical. Readership also includes Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist sensitivities, for example. They might even be citizens of strict or fastidious regimes - one known to comprise 1.5 billion people of Chinese heritage.
We are NOT appeasing religion or state - they don’t exist on our radar except as targets. SheepOverboard wishes to reach out to the hungry and enquiring minds of people suffering excessive scrutiny of online habits, suffocating beneath nosy net nannys regimes.
We want our content in front of all the world’s people, in a valiant quest to effect subtle drift towards utopian mindset - subtlety our forté, you will have noticed.
So remember, one society’s ho-hum is another’s aghast. Set aside your ego for a moment and ponder those uncorrupted souls whose first lesson upon the Internet is to wander bemused through this cyber sideshow alley and its endless in-your-face shouting “it’s all about me” - aka our so-called ‘free western scientific’ society, so full of itself.
It’s a diverse world, so don’t try ’standing on censorship principles here. Just go with the flow. Should you include such bad words in your review, Brud will sanitize the f*****s.
Brud reserves the right to reject any work clashing with SheepOverboard’s sensitive approach, or that doesn’t reach his standards of scribblin’.
Brud will run submissions past Shy Sterling for plagiarism check. Hence, you must submit your real name and email address.
